International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) in Pakistan
International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) in Pakistan: The GIZ organised “International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP)” meeting that serve as a platform for experts in the field of water management, textile and environment, including the representatives from Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa-Lhr), Agriculture Department, Pakistan Meteorological Department, The Urban Unit (UU), Lok Sanjh Foundation (LSF), All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Sustainable Production Centre (SPC), Ministry of Textile Industry and Environmental Protection Department (EPD) for taking collaborative actions to secure water for people.
The partners inked two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) covering different segments of cotton value chain, with the overarching objective of jointly developing strategies to mitigate the shared water and environmental risks and to safeguard the environment from the sources of pollution originating from Punjab’s textile industry.
The multiparty agreements also aimed at creating awareness on Pakistan’s exacerbating water crisis; promoting innovative approaches in securing water supplies for drinking, industrial and agricultural use; managing floods and improving urban and rural drainage networks; storing surplus rain/flood water in the surface/subsurface space; and improving drinking water supply for Punjab’s rural areas.
International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP)
- IWaSP provides a well-tested approach to consolidate the efforts of the public and private sectors and the civil society actors in a safe and conducive environment by conducting impact-orientated dialogue.
- Through this stewardship-based approach, the programme aims to improve water security for people along the value chains, based on sound socio-economic cases for action. This approach levers the resources of the water users, ranging from small-scale farmers to multi-national businesses, to implement the solutions designed and fully owned by them.
- The programme also aims to combine the international best practices with the local knowledge, for instance, 3Di modeling for flood mitigation and locally-made approaches to improve water efficiency for agricultural and industrial purposes.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the German Development Cooperation and UK Department for International Development (DFID), is implementing the International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) in Pakistan.
IWaSP enables partners to adopt a comprehensive and cost-effective approach to manage water risks for people, farmers, villagers, businesses and ecosystems through building different partnerships at a sustainable basis and empowering the partners to take joint decisions for their own benefits.
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